Planning Student Intern

Organization
Sacramento Regional Transit
Job Description

Must be willing to work a minimum of 30 hours in a typical week but may work up to 40 hours a week if available. Flexible unpaid time off will be allowed to work around school, finals, holidays, and other obligations.

Under immediate supervision, the Student Intern performs a wide variety of duties supporting Planning Department; assisting Planning Staff performing basic level work in transit system design, ridership analysis, performance monitoring, capital project development, review of environmental and engineering plans for major development and public works projects, public engagement, and related tasks.

Examples of Duties

  • Assist preparing and maintaining daily and monthly performance reports
  • Assist with SacRT’s short-range and long-range transit plan update 
  • Assist performing background research to support new initiatives (e.g., mobile apps, signal priority)
  • Assist updating route profile report 
  • Assist with SacRT’s Title VI civil rights plan update
  • Assist updating and maintaining SacRT’s GIS shapefiles and GTFS-RT feed
  • Assist preparing presentations, charts, etc. using Power Point, Excel, etc.
  • Assist with review of environmental and engineering documents
  • Monitor ridership and assist customers at special events
  • Monitor and take notes at official meetings (e.g., SacRT Board, Mobility Advisory Council, Sacramento Area Council of Governments, other transit agencies, etc.)
  • Assist with coordination of passenger origin/destination survey 
  • Assist with organizing and conducting special purpose/ad-hoc customer surveys, and in-field investigations of service and facilities, to improve service and schedules 
  • Assist with monitoring SacRT’s real-time digital message sign system at bus stops   
FT/PT
Part Time
Application Deadline